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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 9:14 pm
by Man in Space
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀ɨ̯ʃǿ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
Loss of pharyngeal coärticulation
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xǫtán
[ɸəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’
Loss of intervocalic voiced stops
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:39 pm
by /ˌnɐ.ˈɾɛn.dɚ.ˌduːd/
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀jɨ̯ʃǿ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
breaking of diphthongs.
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xǫtán
[wəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’
[ɸ] > [w]
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 11:33 pm
by foxcatdog
śeeiôqj
[ˈtə̀jɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
Final vowels lost
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xǫtán
[gʷəˈáŋ]
‘catkin orange’
*w > *gʷ when initial or after a nasal
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 10:15 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ʔɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
*j > ʔ
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qág
[gʷáŋ]
‘catkin orange’
Unstressed vowels lost
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:01 pm
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
ʔ → ∅
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qág
[gʷə́ŋ]
‘catkin orange’
Closed syllable neutralisation
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:38 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɰɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority’
Epenthesis.
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qág
[gʷə̃́]
‘catkin orange’
Elision of coda nasals, leaving preceding nasalized vowels.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:50 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ɣɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Spirantization of liquids before high vowels
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qág
[wə̃́]
‘catkin orange’
*gʷ > w
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 8:27 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtə̀ʁɨ́ʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Backing of velar fricatives.
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qág
[ṹ]
‘catkin orange’
wə > u
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2026 9:27 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ʁíʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Place assimilation of central vowels to their environment
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 9:17 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːʁíʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Lengthening of vowels in stressed open syllables.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:20 pm
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːʁéʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
High-tone high vowels lower in unstressed ultimas
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:22 pm
by foxcatdog
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ːéʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
*ʁ lost
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 3:57 pm
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀éːʃ]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Length metathesis in hiatus
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 5:02 pm
by foxcatdog
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀éː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Final *ʃ lost
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2026 6:16 pm
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[ˈtɤ̀ʝéː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Epenthetic [ʝ] inserted before front vowels in hiatus.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 5:08 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[tɤ̀ˈʝéː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Stress reässigned to long vowels
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 9:43 am
by Lērisama
tö’űx
[tʝěː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Loss of unstressed vowels, with tones floating rightwards
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:32 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[tɕěː]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Merger of stops followed by fricatives into affricates with voicing assimilation.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:23 am
by Man in Space
tö’űx
[tɕè]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
Long vowels with rising tone shorten and become low-toned
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:53 am
by Travis B.
tö’űx
[tɕèjə̀]
‘the id; (pejorative) Big Brother-esque authority; moniker for a specific head of state whose policies were famously authoritarian and draconian’
e > ejə in stressed open syllables.